The interpreter, with its clear Pop and Jazz voice to a commercially successful artist, died after a long illness at the age of 81 years.
she was in her house in the California community pioneer town near Joshua Tree national Park died, said her Manager, Devra Hall Levy, the AP news Agency on Thursday evening.
Wilson was influenced by Dinah Washington, Nat “King” Cole and other Stars. She sang mainly jazz classics. In the 1960s, she has published eight albums, which came in the Top 20 of the pop charts by Billboard. Their best-known Songs were “Guess Who I Saw Today” and “(You Don’t Know) How Glad I Am”.
Wilson didn’t want to be with only one music category. She described herself as a “song stylist”. “The music , which I sing today was the pop music of the 1960s,” she said to the newspaper “San Francisco Chronicle” in 2010. “I considered myself just never as a jazz singer.”
Wilson was also in the television, Film and Radio active. She appeared in the series “Hawaii Five-O” and was the host of a series of the US radio station NPR. She also belonged to the civil rights movement. The mother of three children, was married twice. Wilson retired in 2011 from the tour business. (SDA)
Created: 14.12.2018, 10:53 PM
